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I just repaved my ThinkPad A31 (vintage 2003) to 32-bit Windows 7. This laptop has ATI Radeon 7500 video, and I've looked in the usual places. It appears there isn't a driver for this. Does anyone know of an alternative?

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I saw a post on Seven Forums by "Shadowempire" that had the following information:

Download The Vista Driver With OpenGl...

The general consensus of the posts seems to be that you need to install the Vista drivers.

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I've removed the links as the OP indicated that they pointed to dodgy sites. If you need the information either do the search yourself or check out the edit history.

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I did follow the thread, and installed some stuff from that thread - one of the links lead to download that also popped up pron on my box, and set off Norton AV warnings - I repaved, and tried again with another source to install the Vista drivers, and my machine became unstable - thus I decided to use the default windows VGA driver and sacrifice higher resolution. – jmsmcfrlnd Feb 26 '10 at 18:00
@ChrisF: I found the same thread you refer to {see above} ... but this laptop was stolen from my rental car while I was away last week, therefore, I no longer need the drivers. – jmsmcfrlnd Feb 26 '10 at 18:01
@ChrisF: I voted you up for your efforts, but I am reluctant to mark this as the answer, because of the links in the post point to questionable sources (pron popups, etc.). Hope that's not too much of a dis. – jmsmcfrlnd Feb 26 '10 at 18:03
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@James - no problem. I must admit that I didn't follow the links fully, I thought the point about the Vista drivers was the most important piece of information. I'll actually remove the the links so we're not pointing at dodgy sites. – ChrisF Feb 27 '10 at 12:02
thanks for removing the links. – jmsmcfrlnd Feb 27 '10 at 22:56
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